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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 1651

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE RESOLUTION

No. 293 Session of 2007


        INTRODUCED BY PAYNE, BUXTON, BELFANTI, BISHOP, BRENNAN,
           CALTAGIRONE, CAPPELLI, COHEN, DiGIROLAMO, GALLOWAY, GEORGE,
           GINGRICH, HERSHEY, HESS, KIRKLAND, KORTZ, MAJOR, McCALL,
           MILLARD, MUNDY, MUSTIO, M. O'BRIEN, PALLONE, RAMALEY,
           RAYMOND, READSHAW, ROSS, RUBLEY, SANTONI, SAYLOR, SCAVELLO,
           SEIP, SIPTROTH, SONNEY, SURRA, VEREB, YOUNGBLOOD, FREEMAN,
           TANGRETTI, JOSEPHS, MARKOSEK AND MOYER, MAY 23, 2007

        INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
           MAY 23, 2007

                                  A RESOLUTION

     1  Honoring the work and achievements of Judith M. Heh, a favorite
     2     daughter of this Commonwealth.

     3     WHEREAS, In 1982, Judith M. Heh was the first woman elected
     4  to a Statewide office for the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO and served
     5  eight years as secretary-treasurer and four years as executive
     6  vice president and director of the Committee on Political
     7  Education (COPE); and
     8     WHEREAS, While at the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, Governor Robert
     9  P. Casey appointed Ms. Heh as the chair for the Pennsylvania
    10  Commission for Women (1987-1995), a member of the Governor's
    11  Economic Development Partnership (1987-1994); and a member of
    12  the State Job Partnership Training Coordinating Council (1991-
    13  1994); Governor Casey also appointed her to the Unemployment
    14  Advisory Committee to serve with other labor and business
    15  leaders to resolve the financial crisis of the Pennsylvania

     1  Unemployment Compensation Fund; and
     2     WHEREAS, Ms. Heh, since 1994, has served as director of
     3  District Council 90 of the American Federation of State, County
     4  and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), which represents approximately
     5  10,000 public employees and health care workers in Dauphin
     6  County and was the first female to serve as a district council
     7  director for AFSCME in Pennsylvania; and
     8     WHEREAS, Formerly of Pittsburgh, Ms. Heh worked there in
     9  State government and became one of the local leaders of AFSCME,
    10  serving as president of Local 2578 for ten years; and
    11     WHEREAS, Throughout her career, Ms. Heh has championed the
    12  cause to eliminate sex-based, race-based and wage-based
    13  discrimination in the workplace and from 1983 until the
    14  enactment of the Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993, she was
    15  chair of the Family and Medical Leave Coalition in Pennsylvania,
    16  composed of more than 80 labor, progressive and civil rights
    17  organizations to promote FMLA legislation at the national and
    18  State level; and
    19     WHEREAS, Ms. Heh has also served as treasurer and vice
    20  president of the Harrisburg Region Central Labor Council, State
    21  vice president for the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), a
    22  board member for the United Way of the Capital Region, treasurer
    23  for the Pennsylvania Labor History Society and chair for the
    24  Union Leadership Academy (ULA) for Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
    25  West Virginia; therefore be it
    26     RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives honor and
    27  recognize the work and achievements of Judith M. Heh.


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